Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Who, being loved, is poor?

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.